Exam 45: Humanistic Perspective

Years after his participation in terrifying military combat,Gordon continues to suffer intrusive anxiety-arousing images of his war experiences,which he wishes he could forget.Gordon's experience is most clearly inconsistent with Freud's concept of

Mrs.Smith,who is White and unconsciously in favor of racial segregation,tells her friends that most Blacks prefer to live in residential neighborhoods inhabited predominantly by Blacks.According to psychoanalytic theory,Mrs.Smith best illustrates

In the ________ stage of development,pleasure focuses on bowel and bladder elimination and coping with the demands of toilet training.

A refusal to believe direct and highly credible evidence that your spouse is suffering from a terminal illness best illustrates

Which defense mechanism involves expressing feelings that are the exact opposite of their anxiety-arousing unconscious feelings?

George often acts on impulse,without taking time to consider the consequences.A psychoanalyst would suggest that George shows signs of a

Coping with anxiety by retreating to behavior patterns characteristic of an earlier stage of development is called

Free association is central to the process of

Twelve-year-old Jack wants to buy a new video game,but he is $5 short.He considers sneaking the money from his older brother's room but instead asks his father if he could cut the grass as a way of earning the money.According to Freud,asking to earn the money comes from the ________,which provides a compromise solution that reflects the ________ principle.

Although Garth wants to have sex with his girlfriend,he also wants to avoid premarital sex.Freud would have suggested that both desires might be partially satisfied by Garth's

Modern research can describe slips of the tongue as

According to Freud,identification involves

Neo-Freudians placed greater emphasis than did Freud on the role of ________ in personality development.

Four-year-old Timmy had not wet his bed for over a year.However,he started bed-wetting again soon after his sister was born.Timmy's behavior best illustrates

Freud believed in the influence of the unconscious mind on behavior;modern cognitive researchers believe that unconscious processes are a part of our ________,where cooler information processing occurs without our awareness.

According to Freud,the part of personality that represents internalized ideals and provides standards for judgment is the

Greg eats excessively.According to Freud,Greg is ________ in the oral stage of development.

Tarik chain smokes and goes through periods of binge eating and drinking.According to Freud,he is fixated at the ________ stage.

When 16-year-old Hafez received a large inheritance from his grandfather,he was tempted to purchase an expensive new car.He decided,instead,to deposit most of the money into a savings account for his college education and use some to fix his father's old car.Hafez shows signs of a

Bruce wants to be a loving husband but at the same time wants to express his disgust for some of his wife's habits.According to Freud,Bruce's ________ might enable him to partially satisfy both desires.